AR Rahman

AR Rahman unveils single after 15 years

















New Delhi: Music maestro AR Rahman has unveiled his first solo single in over 15 years, in association with Reliance Foundation, to exemplify how love can dissolve boundaries and bring people together.

The 45-year-old singer-composer has joined hands with Nita Ambani, chairperson of the foundation, to promote his message of love and global brotherhood. During the making of the single, titled `Infinite Love`, Rahman personally interacted with his fans and tapped into their perspectives on topics such as creating a borderless world, understanding of karma and the importance of being human. The Oscar-winner`s global appeal attracted responses from far and wide including countries like Brazil, Australia, and the United States. "Infinite Love has been evolved keeping a global audience in mind. I always wanted to know the perspectives which drive the way people live their life. I recollect a story about an elephant that wanders into a village of the blind. Each person touches a different part of the elephant, the trunk, the tail, the tusk, and each one thinks this is what the elephant is. "I am like the blind person. I want to see the entire picture with all of you, and no better way to do it than involving everyone in giving it shape. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Mr Mukesh Ambani and Mrs Nita Ambani for their untiring support towards the project," Rahman said in a statement. "We are delighted to be partnering with Rahman to spread this message of Infinite Love. Rahman captures the spirit of a borderless world, united for a larger cause of bringing the world together," said Nita Ambani, Chairperson, Reliance Foundation.

Jayaprakash Gandhi

Mr. Jayaprakash. A. Gandhi, a popular citizen of Tamil Nadu completed his schooling in Little Flower Higher Secondary School, Salem. He pursued his B.Tech and M.Tech from Anna University, Chennai with outstanding academic performances.Gold medalist from Anna University. He has also obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from NIIT, Chennai.

He has taken up Career Guidance Counseling in the interest of younger generation with Zeal of service and has conducted Career Guidance programs for more than 3,000 Schools and Colleges all over India.

He has conducted more than 1,000 placement training programs across the country including many top institutions such as IIM and IIT which has helped thousands of students to get placements in top multinational companies.

For the first time in India, he has started a unique Career guidance and Resource Centre in Salem with a huge data base of information about all the Institutions and Courses available in the world.

He has been regularly invited by SUN TV, KALAIGNAR TV, POLIMER TV, RAJ TV, NDTV TV, JAYA TV ETC, To conduct many TV programs related to education.

Regular write-ups in all leading dailies like Hindu , Times Of India , Deccan Chronicle , Dinamalar ,and also in magazines like India Today , Kumudam , Kungumam Thoazhi , Kumudam Snehadhi , etc

He is the CORRESPONDENT AND ADVISOR TO McGAN'S Ooty School of Architecture.

He is the director of Lotus Matriculation School Salem.

He is the key person behind many educational reforms like streamlining of medical admissions, entrance exams for professional courses, advice to the higher education department both in the state and national levels.

He is the only person who does complete data analysis of various examinations, Question Papers, Admission Process etc. Many students were able to take right decisions in their careers with the help of this analysis.

Designing Career Guidance Modules for the entire country on behalf of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.

Many notable awards like Independence day award from Government of Tamilnadu , Kamal Partra award from Jaycees , Vocational Excellence award from Rotary Club , Pinnacle Of Education award etc.

He is happily married to Chetna and blessed with a Daughter and a Son.

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BARBER OWNING A ROLLS ROYCE AND A BMW.

A BANGALORE BARBER OWNING A ROLLS ROYCE AND A BMW.

Rolls Royce owner Bangalore Barber. And a BMW and some other expensive cars too.

 

 

If you want a “good haircut”, Ramesh Babu can give you one for Rs 65. That is, if he hasn’t already driven off in his Rs 3-crore Rolls Royce Ghost. Babu, after all, is no ordinary barber. He is a billionaire barber who owns a rent-a-car fleet of 60 cars.
Ramesh Babu is the Bangalore-based coiffeur/barber who gives business the haircut for the medium Rs 100 though owns the Rolls Royce Ghost value Rs 3 crore, as well as 67 alternative cars. “Somehow, things have clicked for me,” says Babu, whose clients embody politicians, military officers as well as movie stars such as Salman Khan, Aamir Khan as well as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
On most days, however, Ramesh drives to work in an egg-white Rolls Royce Ghost, handling the controls on the car’s spiffy dashboard with the same deft touch and care as when he is shaping somebody’s coif. The Rolls costs Rs 3.1 crore and there are only five other people in Bangalore who own such a pedigreed car.
The 41-year-old bought the Rolls a few months back with his own hard-earned money, supplemented by a huge bank loan with a monthly pay-back instalment of Rs 7 lakh. His earnings from the saloon are quite modest, but Ramesh, who networks well with the rich clientele of the elite Bowring Institute, has built a lucrative luxury car rental business. But mainly, the man has a collector’s passion for fancy cars. And if there is some social prestige attached to it, then he’s not complaining.
Ramesh enjoy the comfort of a Rolls Royce which was restricted to rajas and maharajas in the past. Next year, Ramesh is planning to buy a stretch limousine worth around Rs 8 to 9 crore.

Currently, he has a fleet that includes Mercedes Benz (E,S and Viano series) and BMW (5 & 7 series). He hires out these cars to corporates through a travel agency. The Rolls, however, he rents out sparingly. He charges Rs 75,000 for a day for the Rolls when it is let out and his usual clients are corporate bigwigs and visiting Bollywood and Tollywood stars. The last High Net Worth Individual who hired his Rolls was Hero Honda’s chairman who was in town during the World Cup India-England clash.
With a film on his life — expected to be released in three languages — in the pipeline, his Bollywood contacts may come in handy.
Amazing Story
When his father died in 1979, Ramesh, a nine year-old boy, was literally on the streets. The barber shop his father ran on Brigade Road’s St Patrick’s Complex was rented out for Rs 5 per day. Ramesh’s family survived on that money.
After completing SSLC, he quit studying and like his father became a full-time barber. He became a hair stylist subsequently. His fortunes changed in 1994, when taking a leaf from his uncle who rented out cars, be bought a a Maruti Omni van and started renting it out. From there began Ramesh’s tryst with cars. Even now, he has the Omni with him. In 1996, he started a saloon at Bowring Institute and has not looked back since.
The career choice paid off better than he could have imagined.
In 1991, he started his own salon, Inner Space, which gained popularity among the city’s trendy bunch. But the turnaround happened in 1994, when Babu purchased a humble Maruti Omni van and started renting it out.
Seventeen years later, his car collection is anything but humble. Apart from the Rolls Royce, his fleet includes four Mercedes, an equal number of BMWs and 50 Toyota Innovas — which he rents out. Renting the Rolls Royce for a day will set you back by Rs 50,000.

Ramesh also owns a Suzuki Intruder high-end bike costing Rs 16 lakh. He rides this bike during weekends and it’s purely for his private use though occasionally he lets some of his close friends enjoy a ride. Meanwhile, his two-year-old son already seems to share his father’s passion. He effortlessly identifies each and every car in Ramesh’s fancy fleet.
Inside the saloon, as he dons his black overalls, Ramesh seamlessly makes the switch from Rolls Royce owner to barber.
“Even today, being such a rich man he did not forget his roots. He cuts the hair of his regular customers for just Rs 65. He can easily hike his rates or can stop saloon business but he doesn’t. He says that it’s the family trade. And if he doesn’t cut someone’s hair on a particular day, he won’t be able to sleep”. No matter that gleaming Rolls parked outside, his head surely is in the right place.

He saw a dream and lived it !!

NASA's Top Images

NASA's Top Images of 2012

Spaced out

Spaced out: NASA denies world's end as queries skyrocket





The myth may have originated with the Mayan calendar, but in the age of the internet and social media it proliferated online, raising questions and concerns among people around the world who turned to NASA for answers.

LOS ANGELES: If there's one US government body really looking forward to December 22, it's NASA. The space agency said it had been flooded with calls and emails from people asking about the purported end of the world - which, as the doomsday myth goes, is apparently set to take place on December 21.

An agency spokesman, Dwayne Brown, said NASA usually received about 90 calls or emails a week with questions from the public. But in recent weeks the number had rocketed, and between 200 and 300 people a day had been contacting NASA to ask about the end of the world. ''Who's the first agency you would call?'' he said. ''You're going to call NASA.''

US reaches ebooks

US reaches ebooks settlement with Penguin

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Pearson Plc's Penguin Group in the government's investigation of alleged price-setting in the e-book market.The Justice Department had accused Apple and five publishers in April of illegally colluding on prices as part of an effort to fight Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc's dominance of e-books.
Apple is accused of convincing the five publishers to use the "agency model," that allows publishers to set the price of e-books, and in turn Apple would take a 30 percent cut.
Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster opted to settle with the Justice Department in April but Apple, Penguin and MacMillan said they would fight the allegations.
News Corp. owns HarperCollins Publishers Inc, CBS Corp owns Simon & Schuster Inc and Lagardere SCA owns Hachette Book Group. Macmillan is a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH.
Many people in the book publishing and selling industry accuse Amazon of deeply discounting books to sell them below cost in order to drive other e-book sellers out of business, and then raise prices.
Under the terms of the settlement announced on Tuesday, Penguin will drop any agreements with Apple and other e-book sellers that prevents price discounting. It will not be allowed to reinstate the deals for two years.
The settlement terms were similar to ones that the Justice Department reached with the other three publishers in April.
The impetus for the settlement could well be a joint venture of Penguin and Random House announced in October by Penguin owner Pearson's and Random House owner Bertelsmann.
That deal is also aimed at gaining the upper hand in the publishers' relationship with Amazon and Apple.
The publisher settlements with the Justice Department have been unpopular with bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc and the American Booksellers Association, which represents independent stores. Both have argued the settlements would strengthen Amazon's dominance.

Mayan Calendar

Mayan Calendar Doomsday Prophecies a Hoax, Says NASA

Predictions about the end of the world on Friday, December 21 are reaching a fever pitch. From rogue planets to shifting poles, the crazy ideas put forth for how humanity will soon perish resemble countless past doomsday prophecies that haven’t come true.

It seems that NASA has decided it is its responsibility to debunk all of the Maya Calendar rumors. Already, NASA scientists have participated in an hour-long discussion of how end-of-the-world predictions are not based on reality. In fact, NASA is so confident the world will not end that it has already prepared and released a video for December 22 that explains to bewildered believers exactly why the world will have kept turning.

NASA is keeping at it, trying to save people from selling their belongings and waiting for anapocalypse that won’t come. A new video has been released by the agency, again speaking out against the doomsday rumors. In it, David Morrison, a senior scientist and astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, goes through each of the most popular doomsday scenarios, tossing them aside like trash.

TCS wins project of the year

TCS wins prestigious ‘supply chain project of the year’ award in UK

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, has bagged the prestigious ‘Supply Chain Project of the Year’ at the Hermes Retail Week UK Supply Chain Awards 2012. TCS won the award along with The Co-operative Group for implementing ‘Store Merchandise and Replenishment System’ (SMART), a major transformation programme for The Co-operative Group’s food business, a key player in the UK grocery sector. The Co-operative Group chose to partner with TCS to develop and deliver the SMART initiative, which has impacted the Co-operative Group’s food business positively. This ambitious project introduced new systems to enable effective stock forecasting and replenishment and range control at all The Co-operative Group’s Food Stores. The initiative also delivered a significant improvement in stock availability.

TCS

Buy TCS; target Rs 1410: Angel Broking

Angel Broking is bullish on Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 1410 in its December 17, 2012 research report.

AngelBroking is bullish on Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 1410 in its December 17, 2012 research report.

"TCS hosted an analyst briefing with Mr S. Mahalingam, CFO and Executive Director, and Mr Kedar Shirali, Head of Investor Relations. Following are the key takeaways: Stable demand environment with no change in outlook: TCS is on track to meet its full-year plan shaped in April 2012 and does not see any major project cancellations or change in customers' decision making process and their budgets. The deal pipeline of the company continues to remain healthy. The overall pricing in the market is stable.

3QFY2013 has traditionally been a relatively soft quarter in terms of volume growth for IT companies and this year is expected to be no different. We believe TCS is likely to deliver a 3-3.5% qoq volume growth in 3QFY2013 as compared to 4.9% in 2QFY2013 because of lower working days and furloughs seen. While sectors such as hi-tech and manufacturing verticals have furloughs, this time even banking and financial services (BFS) saw a few instances of clients taking furloughs. But revenues from BFS are expected to grow despite that. Telecom continues to face challenges. In terms of ramp-ups in deals signed and deal closures, the company is not seeing any variation than in 2QFY2013. Among services and geographies, growth is mostly expected to be broad-based; Europe may lag slightly, majorly because of sluggish telecom vertical.

TCS’ management expects a slight dip in margin during 3QFY2013 on account of lower working days and addition of freshers into the system. The company, however, maintained that it would be focused to deliver 27% EBIT margin for FY2013. If EBIT margins decline by 30-40bp qoq during 3QFY2013, then TCS would be required to post a 130-140bp qoq expansion in EBIT margin in 4QFY2013 to achieve the 27% target for full year FY2013.

The management indicated that it is in the midst of assessing clients’ plans as far as CY2013 budgets are concerned; early indicators call for reasonable optimism. The management will get a better picture on client budgets in January. As far as pricing is concerned, the company has not seen any irrational behavior in a consistent manner and expects pricing to remain stable. The company expects hedge losses of ~Rs 30-35cr, based on the hedge positions taken and the premium that it would have charged by December 2012.

The management commentary sounded promising and hardly reflected any impact from a daunting macro environment. We expect TCS to again outperform its peers in 3QFY2013 in terms of growth. TCS’ execution has been good over the past many quarters and its stock is currently trading at 17.3x and 15.8x its FY2013E and FY2014E EPS of Rs 69.7 and Rs 76.2, respectively. We continue to remain positive on the stock and maintain our Buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 1,410," says Angel Broking research report.

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